Names with nice (or not) meanings...

[busybusybumblebee]

Anybody know of any names (girls or boys) with really nice/interesting meanings....?? OR the opposite, names with not nice meanings...!!

[perpetuallypregnant]

My teenage son is called Cameron, nice Scottish name I thought - it means crooked nose :(
I still love it though :)

[piprabbit]

I love the name Eris. She is the goddess of strife, chaos and upheaval, and therefore it is a highly appropriate name for a newborn.

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Andrew means "manly" which, when I think of the Andrews I know, makes me guffaw somewhat.

Lucy means "light" which is nice.

Rachel means "ewe" which wouldn't be my choice :)

Also Rebecca means "knotted cord", yummy.

Asher is lovely though, and means happy/laughing I think. Felix means happy as well.

Jonathan means "gift from God" and IME they usually act like god's gift too

[nooka]

The root of my name is Jacob, which means "the supplanter" (because Jacob supplanted Esau when he pretended to be Esau to get his fathers blessing) so really not a good meaning! I love my name though :)

[barbiewantsawhitechristmas]

My dd middle name is Nimah which is arabic for 'little blessing' and she really is most of the time.

[AllWrong]

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[shongololo]

we really liked Caleb....until we found it meant a mad dog.

And for a girl: Lillith - it means a shriek owl, and so by association, a nagging woman or shrew.

[BuntyPenfold]

A friend told me that Brendan means 'stinking hair.'

[OctaviaOstrichJollster]

Usually I don't focus on meanings but I learned that Benedict means blessing, and as I have been struggling to TTC#2 if we're lucky enough to have another DS I think we'll use Benedict (nn Ned).

ROFL at Jonathan... yes, God's gift!

[Lancelottie]

I know a family with:
Jonathan (god's gift)
Theodora (god's gift)
and, erm,
Matthew (god's gift)

Wonder what they'd have called a fourth child? Damien springs to mind...

[Lancelottie]

Incidentally, DS1 wsa mightily peeved to find his middle name meant 'Pigkeeper', when the other two had a nice romantic 'Light' and 'Beloved' stuck in there -- be consistent across your tribe, is the message.

[smilingserenely]

nice meanings include
arabella beautiful answer to prayer
felicity /felix bringer of joy
sophia wise
issac laughter
dorothea god's gift

jane and it's translations including sinead gift of god

less nice include
cecilia /cecily blind althogh cecelia is sometimes given the meaning lily of heaven
claudia lame

ambiguous name
miriam wished for child or bitterness depending on interpretation

[smilingserenely]

should have added abigail father's joy

[lilly13]

Matthew (gift from God)
Vera (faith)
Sohia (wisdom)
Nadia (hope)
Denis (from Dionysios, god of wine) -- decided not name the baby Denis after learned this

[Ormirian]

Ruth means kindness.

[Ormirian]

Eleanor and Alexander both come from the Greek word for light.

[cece]

Twitchell - means coming from a narrow passage I believe....

[JamieLeeCurtis]

I love Claudia, but on here people often point out that it means "lame". I would still use it, though

[JamieLeeCurtis]

I also like Serena - which I guess is derived fro "serenity"

[JamieLeeCurtis]

Iris - apart from the eye connection, means Rainbow, which is about as nice as you can get

[smilingserenely]

naomi pleasant

[We3kingsoforientRaahh]

DD2 is Philippa- means 'lover of horses', which is interesting...

Had she been a boy, she would have been Isaac (laughter), which i think is a lovely meaning.

I don't worry about meanings, though- i would have loved to use Claudia, despite the meaning.

[theagedparent]

Dulcie = sweet

[BelligerentGhoul]

I came on to post Naomi = pleasant - but SmilingSerenely beat me to it!

[nagynolonger]

Catherine, and all variations means pure.

Nathan is another one meaning God's gift.